This course is intended to provide adoption professionals with information and materials they can use to educate pre-adoptive and adoptive parents about the mental-health and developmental issues their children may experience.

Course Objective

Learn ways to incorporate this module into their own training programs for prospective adoptive parents and experienced adoptive parents

Have an understanding of some of the psychological, developmental and medical challenges that adopted children may experience

Learn about resources to assist professionals in understanding and addressing these psychological, developmental and medical challenges with adoptive parents

David Brodzinsky, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Developmental and Clinical Psychology and past Director of the Foster Care Counseling Project at Rutgers University. He also was a founding director and served for 10 years on the Board of Directors of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute in New York City.

Adoption for Clinicians
Although child therapists routinely see adopted and foster children in their clinical caseloads, they generally receive no specific training in graduate school to understand the unique interplay of biological & environmental factors which impact on these youngsters; nor do they receive training in the unique psychodynamics found in adopted & f
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Clinical Psychology

Update on Issues in Transracial Adoption
This class describes current changes and issues in transracial adoption and adjustment outcomes for these children; biological factors and environments associated with the adjustment of transracial adoptions; and family lifecycle issues.